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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5277): Firefox vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 22, 2016
Added
Sep 22, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsRefreshDriver::Tick function in Mozilla Firefox before 49.0, Firefox ESR 45.x before 45.4, and Thunderbird < 45.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging improper interaction between timeline destruction and the Web Animations model implementation.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-firefoxubuntu-upgrade-thunderbird
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